Saint Joseph Catholic Church

The Alliance to End Human Trafficking, whose members include over 200 congregations of religious sisters, warned that legislation under consideration in the U.S. Senate “could weaken safeguards against illicit finance and create vulnerabilities that traffickers and transnational criminal organizations may exploit.”

Addressing the opening session of the two-day extraordinary consistory of the College of Cardinals (program), Pope Leo said today that “mission is not merely one of the Church’s many tasks,” but “her very reason for existing and thus, it also becomes the criterion that guides our discernment.”

Violent earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24, causing extensive loss of human life and damage to Catholic institutions.

Reflecting on Christ’s parable of the vine and the branches, Pope Leo XIV told the world’s cardinals that the living, believing Church bears much fruit.